Title :
From spatio-temporal to temporal modulational instability
Author :
Salerno, Domenico ; Di Trapani, Paolo ; Minardi, Stefano ; Jenkins, Stewart ; Kennedy, T. A Brian ; Valiulis, Gintaras ; Tamosauskas, Gintaras
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Math., Insubria Univ., Como, Italy
Abstract :
We study the impact of the beam diameter on the spectrum of the instability in second harmonic generation, and we report direct evidence of a quantum origin of the instability of a spatial soliton.
Keywords :
optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; optical solitons; quantum optics; beam diameter; instability spectrum; modulational instability; quantum origin; second harmonic generation; spatial soliton; spatiotemporal modulation; temporal modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8973-5
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567214
